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Former members of FrontPoint Partners launched their own hedge fund called Seawolf Capital; Stuart Powers is assembling a team for the January 1st launch of his hedge fund firm Hengistbury Investment Partners (global long/short equity fund); Cowen Group launched the Ramius Trading Strategies Managed Futures Fund; Cambridge Strategy was chosen as the launch manager for the CitiFX Access platform (a multi-manager platform); R. G. Niederhoffer Capital Management started the Roy G. Niederhoffer Inflation Protection Program; former Highbridge manager Jason Esralew said he was starting an event-driven hedge fund at Ionic Capital Management; Blackstone Group is considering to back Ali Akay’s Carrhae Capital hedge fund that will start trading in December; and South African group IDS is currently setting up new hedge funds on its new Malta platform.

Brevan Howard is to return $2bn to the Master Fund’s investors to avoid growing so large that its performance suffers; Arrowgrass Capital Partners is considering shutting down its equity fund following heavy redemptions; and the GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator, up 3% for September (compared to 19% in Nov-2008), showed that investors continue to trust the industry.

According to Eurekahed......................

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